{"id":778989,"date":"2026-02-27T03:04:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T03:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/778989\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T03:04:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T03:04:18","slug":"dave-canales-gets-honest-about-bryce-young-explains-biggest-area-of-improvement-for-panthers-qb-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/778989\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Canales gets honest about Bryce Young, explains biggest area of improvement for Panthers QB in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carolina Panthers quarterback Bryce Young<\/a> took strides forward in 2025 after an uneven first two seasons in the NFL<\/a>. Young posted career highs in passing and led the Panthers to the playoffs for the first time since 2017. <\/p>\n

But where head coach Dave Canales<\/a> saw the most improvement from Young was at the line of scrimmage. Canales said Thursday that Young dominated in that category, an encouraging development.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we saw Bryce do this year was just really own and dominate the operations at the line of scrimmage and was able to give him more information standing up there, seeing the shell, seeing what\u2019s happening with the front,\u201d Canales said on NFL Network. \u201cWhether it\u2019s run-game protection or pass game, you\u2019re taking a lot of information in. Early on, I saw him really make strides there and master that part.\u201d<\/p>\n

The numbers were also much improved for Young. The 2023 No. 1 overall pick threw for 3,011 yards, 23 touchdowns and 11 interceptions on 63.6% passing.<\/p>\n

The Panthers need even more from Bryce Young in 2026<\/p>\n

Last month, the Panthers exercised the fifth-year option on Young\u2019s contract. This upcoming season should determine if Carolina wants to give Young a big-money contract extension. Canales is going all-in on getting the best out of Young, saying this week at the NFL Scouting Combine that offensive coordinator Brad Idzik<\/a> will call plays. <\/p>\n

Where can Young take another step forward in 2026? It all comes down to consistency, Canales said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere we got to go from here is just continue to grow our scheme specifically with Bryce in mind and really own some concepts,\u201d Canales said. \u201cFind that consistency that I know he wants and how can you replicate those special games that he\u2019s had. He\u2019s had a couple of games where we\u2019re in rhythm, it\u2019s not all just Bryce, right? This is a young group learning how to play together, and I\u2019ve been really proud of that group talking to each other, troubleshooting things, working with Brad Idzik, our offensive coordinator, and making sure things are in sync.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe that is our next step and then I\u2019d love see Bryce continue to affect the game at the line of scrimmage by getting into advantageous checks when it\u2019s appropriate, and we\u2019ll give him more opportunities to do that this year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carolina Panthers quarterback Bryce Young took strides forward in 2025 after an uneven first two seasons in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[43904,235,260,2567,7,6,236],"class_list":{"0":"post-778989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-panthers","8":"tag-bryce-young-20-mater-dei","9":"tag-carolina","10":"tag-carolina-panthers","11":"tag-carolinapanthers","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-panthers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}